Science

Look around, and you’ll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way...

MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they...

Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek use hundreds of...

The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a...

Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of...

Treating severe or chronic injury to soft tissues such as skin and muscle is a challenge in health care. Current...

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to...

The biological world is awash in chemical signals. Ants lead their nest mates to food with winding trails of pheromones,...

In the early 2000s, a young graduate student at Harvard University began to chart an exotic mathematical universe — one...